by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 25, 2022 | RELAX: Other Relaxation
Mad Honey is a compulsively readable novel by two of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan. It’s about two single moms in small-town Adams, New Hampshire, and their high school-age kids. Olivia is a beekeeper and entrepreneur. Her son Asher is...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Nov 10, 2021 | RELAX: Other Relaxation
Wish You Were Here, to be released in late November by Jodi Picoult, is a pandemic novel. But it’s also so much more. It’s about the necessity of malleable hopes and dreams, whether we want to adjust or not. It focuses on one relatively young, upwardly mobile couple...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 11, 2020 | RELAX: Other Relaxation
Jodi Picoult combines Egyptology and the work of a death doula in her new book, The Book of Two Ways. She even throws in a side helping of quantum physics and multiverses. The story is emotional, wise, and engaging but also sometimes a bit dry and hard to follow. Main...
by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 3, 2017 | MISCELLANEOUS
At the end of 2016, those favorite books of 2016 lists were everywhere. People were creating them. Newspapers and magazines were creating them. Well, shoot! I wanted to join in. But I couldn’t just list my favorite books of 2016, since there are so many. I like...
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